Welding Supervisor

Crest Industries, Inc.; Alexandria (LA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is seeking a Welding Supervisor to lead the Welding department, ensuring safety, quality and on-time production. You will guide welders, coordinate with manufacturing teams and uphold welding standards in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include staffing, training, coaching, and maintaining alignment with production priorities, while solving issues and sustaining continuous improvement. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years welding and fabrication experience in manufacturing or industrial settings.
• Leadership or supervisory experience in a welding environment.
• Strong ability to read engineering drawings and welding symbols.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Welding department by setting expectations, directing work and ensuring safety, quality and efficiency.
• Foster safety culture and operational excellence across the Welding department.
• Conduct regular welding team meetings to review priorities and resolve issues.
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing and training for the welding team and provide staffing feedback.
• Develop welders through coaching and adherence to procedures.
• Provide shop-floor leadership during daily production activities and maintain production flow.
• Ensure materials, equipment and drawings are ready to minimize delays.
• Identify and resolve welding-related issues and coordinate cross-functional support.
• Ensure welds meet approved procedures, drawings and workmanship standards.
• Collaborate with QA, Safety and other teams to address quality concerns and corrective actions.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Team coordination

Decision quality

Mentorship

Welding supervision

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Technical welding education (preferred)

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations!

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half-century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way. Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory-Built

Substations, our age-old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.

The Welding Supervisor provides operational leadership for the Factory Built Substation (FBS) Welding department, overseeing daily operations and driving safe, efficient, and timely production execution. This role is responsible for ensuring welding activities are performed in accordance with approved welding procedures, quality requirements, and established workmanship standards.

The Welding Supervisor maintains a strong and visible shop-floor presence, combining hands-on leadership and welding expertise with effective planning, coordination, and problem-solving to drive team performance and maintain production flow. This position plays a key role in aligning people, processes, and daily priorities while collaborating across teams to resolve challenges and support production schedules and customer commitments.

Success in this role requires strong leadership, professional communication, sound decision-making, and practical welding and fabrication knowledge. The Welding Supervisor must effectively lead through changing production demands while maintaining a strong culture of safety, quality, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Instills Trust
• Manages Ambiguity

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Welding Leadership:

• Lead the Welding department by setting clear expectations, providing direction and support, and holding Welders accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and job performance.

• Foster a culture of safety, teamwork, discipline, professionalism, and operational excellence throughout the Welding department.

• Conduct regularly scheduled Welding Team meetings to communicate production priorities, address operational challenges, strengthen team coordination, and support continuous improvement.

• Support recruiting, candidate interviews, and training efforts for the Welding department; provide feedback to PSS Leadership regarding staffing needs, team capabilities, and workforce considerations based on production demands and departmental needs.

• Develop the technical capabilities of Welders through hands-on coaching and mentorship, reinforcing welding skills, workmanship standards, and adherence to approved welding procedures.

Production Execution:

• Provide active shop-floor leadership and technical support to Welders throughout daily production activities.

• Oversee daily Welding operations to ensure production schedules, quality standards, productivity expectations, and operational targets are consistently achieved.

• Partner with the Production Manager to align Welding activities with short- and long-term production priorities, scheduling requirements, and operational objectives.

• Ensure materials, welding equipment, consumables, tools, and design drawings are available and ready ahead of scheduled production activities to minimize delays and downtime.

• Adjust labor and resources within the Welding department as needed to maintain productivity and respond to changing production demands.

Execution and Problem Solving:

• Proactively identify and respond to welding-related production issues, workflow disruptions, equipment concerns, and process inefficiencies affecting Welding performance and production flow.

• Take timely action to resolve issues within the Welding Supervisor’s area of responsibility and communicate or escape matters requiring cross-functional support to the appropriate teams.

Welding Quality and Technical Compliance:

• Ensure Welders perform work in accordance with approved welding procedures, engineering drawings, welding symbols, specifications, and established workmanship standards.

• Provide technical guidance and support to Welders, addressing welding and workmanship concerns as they arise and reinforcing proper welding methods and approved procedures.

• Partner with CWI and Quality teams to support required inspections, address weld quality concerns and non-conformances, and implement corrective actions in a timely manner to minimize disruptions to production flow.

Safety:

• Enforce compliance with company safety procedures and safe work practices across all Welding operations.

• Ensure Welders are properly trained on welding equipment, tools, material handling, procedures, personal protective equipment, and applicable safety protocols.

• Maintain accountability for housekeeping, work-area organization, and safe operation of welding and material-handling equipment.

• Partner with Safety and appropriate teams to address hazards, incidents, audit findings, and corrective actions within Welding operations.

Reporting and Performance Analysis:

• Track and analyze Welding production performance, build times, and labor-hour data to identify trends and support production planning, scheduling, and workforce utilization.

• Provide the Production Manager with timely updates on Welding performance, production constraints, staffing needs, quality concerns, and other issues that may impact production commitments.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Welding-related production coordination, collaborating with Assembly, the Buffer Coordinator, Quality, Logistics, Engineering and Design, Project Management, Supply Chain, and other DTPS teams to support production execution and coordinate issues affecting the Welding department.

• Proactively communicate design concerns, material issues, inspection constraints, and other cross-functional challenges that may impact Welding operations; engage the appropriate teams to support timely resolution and minimize disruptions to production flow.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (Required):

• 5+ years of experience in welding and fabrication within a manufacturing or industrial environment, including demonstrated experience in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
• Strong knowledge of welding processes, welding procedures, fabrication practices, joint preparation, weld quality, and workmanship standards.
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret engineering and fabrication drawings, welding symbols, and applicable specifications.
• Strong experience with aluminum welding and fabrication.
• Experience with structural steel layout and fit-up.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and respond effectively to welding, quality, workflow, equipment, and production challenges.
• Ability to lead through changing production demands while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, execution, and operational efficiency.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across all DTPS departments.
• Strong organizational and workforce coordination skills with the ability to manage changing priorities, labor requirements, and production demands.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (Preferred):

• Technical education or formal training in welding, fabrication, manufacturing, or a related field preferred.
• Experience with 5F fillet welds on aluminum bus pipe preferred.
• Experience with gas metal arc welding processes and aluminum fabrication in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience with electrical substations, high-voltage equipment, or power distribution manufacturing.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives, lean manufacturing principles, or operational efficiency programs.
• Experience working within complex, multi-department manufacturing operations with high production demands and customer-driven schedules.
• Knowledge of ERP systems and Microsoft Office applications.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is proud to be ISO-9001:2015 and ISN Certified.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request information regarding reasonable accommodation, contact your Human Resource Business Partner.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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